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Powerpoint presentations

I need to be honest I am not familiar to powerpoint presentations this is the only knowledge I have of powerpoint.
I will discuss my experience I have had so far in doing my presentation, I really had no clue what I was doing I went to sites that were provided to me, but still did not understand what i was reading so I downloaded this program called Camtasia studio which I started by finding all my pictures of the Abenaki Indians then I added my narration which at first did not line up with my slides so then I had to start over on the narration to coincide with my slides so I had enough slides to go the distance of my narrations I still have work to do but I feel I am on my way.

Hans Rosling's video

I was most impressed with Han's presentation he created a lecture that will keep his audiance very interested in his speach of data by making his statistics fun to watch by motion animation and yes humor in his voice. What amazed me most was his research of how when countries reduced the number of children in families that the life exspectantcy increased.
I was intrigued a bit by what he talked about in money doesn't create health you need health to create money if you don't have good health it doesn't matter how much money you have when you are gone so is the money in a sense, but if you are healthy you run out of money you can go back and make more.

Bloom Taxonomy

When I went to the web sites of bloom I was confused actually very overwhelmed by all the information that he was giving, when I saw the pyramid of higher learning if all you do is concentrate on this it breaks it down to an easier understanding, which i believe this method could be used in any and all ways of teaching and learning.
I guess all in all is this theory only way of getting higher learning or is it his way of achieving higher learning.

Response to Dr. Bernie Dodge

The pitfalls of making a webquest wow my quest has most everything that he said not to do, the one thing I had was a a great topic. To me its like Dr. Bernie looked over my webquest picked it a part and gave critism and said this is what i see in your quest now fix it. In order to correct my webquest I need to spunk up my intro to draw my kids in, then instead of using all factuals i need to maybe ask questions with questions make the audiance wonder want to see for themselves want them to research and do the project without it feeling like they are working but being explorers.

Begining of my WebQuest

Designing a WebQuest, people say the hardest part of doing most research papers or web pages is coming up with the topic, but I had no problem coming up with my topic, I wanted to do something close to my heart I chose a topic about my ancestors.
My problem with doing the WebQuest is figuring out how to set it up and where I set it up. I'm confused on where to start on my design. Do I go to a web page where I set up my WebQuest or do I go into my microsoft word and create my own, and if I do this how do I have it accessible to my students so they can start their research on the subject.

Creative Commons

I went to Magnatunes to see the variety of music. I might have been mistaken by the podcast with the interview with John Buckman, but I was sure he said the music on there was free downloads as long as you weren't going to make money with it. Like I said I went on Magnatunes and there were only 48 songs free, all others were buy downloads or cd.
I do think Creative Commons has a great concept in the fact they allow people to share and still have copy writes. What they create is still protected but is allowed to be seen as long as no one makes money.
The internet is a great place to get your work out allows you to get known with out the huge exspense of advertising. I do believe this concept can and will work as long as everyone dont take advantage of it and all other businesses suffer because we all strive on money flow in all industry and if we use the internet for everything this can and will impact the economy.